Negative effects of oil spills

The effect depends on many factors like the type of spillage and the amount of oil that spilled. Oil can contaminate many things under water, if marine life comes in contact that is contaminated it can be very harmful and possible kill them, the surviving marine life may have ad health afterwards. Oil spills can also effect organisms habitats.

The wildlife that is most affected by oil spills

How the wildlife is affected by oil spills

Oil can destroy the fur of marine mammals of feathers of birds who came I contact, exposing them to the harsh elements. When this happens the animals don't have a way to protect themselves from the cold water, so they may develop hypothermia, and die. Also if an animal ingests oil it can poison them. Adult fish when exposed to oil may experience reduced growth, enlarged liver, and it affects their eggs and larval survival.

Does oil spills affect us in League City? If not, could it ever reach our area?

Oil spills do not affect us in League City because there is no major body of water to spill oil in, or ships that ship oil across to a destination. We may lose oil from the spill that we could use, but it will not be able to reach our area.

Solutions to oil spills

There really isn't a way to prevent oil spills, but there are many ways to clean one up. For example scientists discovered a superabsorbent material that sops up to 40 times its own weight of oil. It can then be shipped to an oil refinery and processed to recover the oil.

My solution to oil spills

When a ship is carrying oil and it detects a spill in process or making, a siren will go off. This siren activates a giant rubber tank or bag type too be released under the opening exposing the oil to the water. The bag will catch the oil, and it has a seal to close off the opening so no more oil is exposed. After this happens the bag can be taken inside with a pump to pump the oil back to where it belongs on the ship. I don't think my idea would be able to be implemented now because this requires the making of a giant tank or bag, and the technology to move the bag around as needed.